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Students use "skywriting", "letter boxing" and tracing with repeated sound/letter association to build words with a specific phonemic sound. The pictures for each sound visually anchor the spelling/comprehension component while building vocabulary. The student then creates sentences using the words. Each worksheet has a teaching "dialogue" lesson plan including sentence prompts, making this process easy for the classroom or home. Extended activities include rebus writing, "sound maps" and puzzles.

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